As Xu Rui expected, the devils on Mustang Beach soon fell into a desperate situation.

According to Kawaguchi Heiji's meaning, it was necessary to dig two parallel canals that ran from north to south, bring in the water of the Mei River, and use the river water to block the fire that spread from the east and west, so as to keep the last small piece of shelter for the Kawaguchi detachment, as long as this small piece of shelter was kept, the Kawaguchi detachment would also be saved.

Then, after the river water extinguished the coal field fire, the Kawaguchi detachment would be able to get out of trouble.

In order to speed up the progress as much as possible, the Kawaguchi detachment ordered his Japanese troops to dig from the north and south directions at the same time, and then connect the two canals after digging to the middle.

Then, the fire spread to the canal that was only half dug and then the river water met the flames, and instantly vaporized, forming a large amount of water vapor, however, the scene that Kawaguchi Heiji expected did not appear, after the earth fire encountered the river, instead of extinguishing, the fire became more intense, and there was even a violent explosion in one place!

Seeing such a scene, Heiji Kawaguchi was directly stunned: This is impossible, what the hell is going on?

Poor Heiji Kawaguchi did not systematically study advanced chemistry, and did not know that under the premise of sufficient heating, coal will be cracked, which will form flammable and explosive compounds, and even gas can be refined through the cracking of coal, and under the seemingly flat surface, in fact, there are not no gaps, there are actually many large and small cavities in the middle, when these cavities are filled with the gas produced by cracking, and then ignited, how can there be no explosion?

At this time, the coal field has completely caught fire and burned, in addition to its own fire, but also because of the high temperature to crack the coal into a large amount of flammable and explosive oil and gas, how can the combustion of these flammable and explosive oil and gas be extinguished by water? In fact, the introduction of water from the Mei River not only failed to extinguish the fire, but rather fueled the fire and produced a large amount of water vapor.

With the introduction of the river, the fire on the wild horse beach became more violent in an instant, and the more violent fire in turn evaporated more river water, forming more steam, more high temperature and high humidity steam, and soon, the entire wild beach was completely covered by high humidity water vapor.

Heiji Kawaguchi's eyes widened, but he couldn't see five feet ahead.

"Yaga, Yaga! Quick, block the canal and don't let the river flow in! Heiji Kawaguchi was soon fumigated by the water vapor and sweated profusely, and quickly ordered his devils to block the canal and prevent more water from flowing in.

Although Kawaguchi Heiji did not study chemistry systematically, he finally reacted that he could not let more river water flow in and contact with the earth fire, otherwise if the fire did not spread and burn them to death, these high temperature and high humidity water vapor would have smoked them to death, because in just such a moment, Kawaguchi Heiji already felt that he was about to lose his breath, and staying in such a steam environment for half an hour would definitely be dead or alive.

However, at this moment, almost all the devils have become a mess, and no one has followed Kawaguchi Heiji's orders at all.

In a hurry, Kawaguchi Heiji walked to the canal with the only few orderlies who could still obey his command, and prepared to lead people to cut the canal himself, but only a few steps forward, a flame suddenly rose not far from his right, and even in the thick steam, this flame was so dazzling.

Kawaguchi Heiji hurriedly looked back, only to see that one of his orderlies had fallen into the flames, it turned out that the earth fire had already burned from under the surface, and burned a cavity, the orderly stepped on the cavity, the cavity immediately collapsed, and the flames buried on the surface of the ground and a large amount of combustible gas erupted in an instant, forming the burst of flames just now.

In this raging flame, the poor devil was burned to the ground of a skeleton in an instant, and he didn't even have time to let out a scream.

Seeing this scene, several orderlies behind Kawaguchi Heiji instinctively retreated, but this retreat stepped on a hollow, and in an instant, those orderlies also fell into the flames, seeing the orderlies who were swallowed by the flames, Kawaguchi Heiji's heart was miserable, but he didn't dare to take half a step under his feet.

Looking around, it was still white, and I couldn't see anything.

However, in the vast white vapor, it was filled with the howls of the Japanese army.

Heiji Kawaguchi could have imagined how desperate the Japanese officers and soldiers trapped in the steam would be at this moment, because even he was already desperate.

The Kawaguchi detachment is afraid that it will be difficult to escape.

In desperation, Kawaguchi Heiji wanted to find his communications staff officer, at least to report the news of the Kawaguchi detachment's jade shattering in most of the Mustang Beach to Feicheng and report it to the Nanjing headquarters, but in the chaos just now, Nagajin Tatsuya and his communications staff didn't know where they had gone, and they didn't know whether they were alive or not, so they could only give up.

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The clock was half an hour ago.

Wang Husheng hurried to the position of the 1st Battalion under the escort of Li Dagou and more than a dozen militiamen.

After igniting the gasoline combustion isolation zone, Wang Husheng began to take the county brigade and eight district teams to start wading across the river, although the Meihe River is turbulent, but as long as you prepare in advance, it is still not difficult to cross, the county brigade and the eight district teams use the simplest method, using ropes to cross the river.

I won't say much about the specific steps here, with more than 100 long ropes prepared in advance, more than 100 militiamen can be sent to the west bank of the Mei River at one time, and more than 1,000 militiamen, all of them will cross to the west bank in 10 round-trips, and it will take less than half an hour before and after, so when the gasoline burning belt ignites the Tanwei coal field, before the fire spreads, more than 1,200 militiamen from the county brigade and eight district squadrons have already landed on the west bank of the Mei River.

Due to the flame barrier of the gasoline burning belt, the devils on the wild horse beach did not know until this time that the militia that they had forced into the tail of the wild horse beach had successfully broken through, of course, even if the devils found all this, they were afraid that they were helpless, and it was impossible to cross the gasoline burning belt, and follow the example of the county brigade and the eight district squads to cross the river and escape, because after the last group of militia crossed the river, Wang Husheng ordered to put away the ropes, without the ropes, the devils could not cross the river at all.

"Lao Wang, how is your situation there?" Xu Rui greeted Wang Husheng and asked.

"Fortunately, the county brigade sacrificed six comrades, the Zhangjiazhuang squad also sacrificed two comrades, another sixteen comrades were wounded, and two comrades were washed away while crossing the river, and I don't know whether they were alive or dead." Wang Husheng gasped and replied, "However, in the end, there was no disgrace and lured the little devil into Mustang Beach." ”

"Not only is there no disgrace, Lao Wang, you have made a great contribution!" After Xu Rui finished speaking, he patted Wang Husheng on the shoulder.

"That's my credit." Wang Husheng didn't dare to take credit, and shook his head again and again, "This is all the comrades of the county brigade and various district teams who exchanged their lives and blood, and I just did what I could according to your orders." ”

"Okay, Lao Wang, you hurry up and take the comrades of the county brigade and the district teams back to the tunnel to rest, and leave the rest to me." Xu Rui patted Wang Husheng on the shoulder and said.

"Okay, then I'll go first." Wang Husheng was busy for half a night, and he was really tired, so he withdrew first with the militia of the county brigade and various district teams.

At this time, He Guangming suddenly shouted: "Commander, look, there is a heavy fog on the Wild Horse Beach. ”

Xu Rui turned around when he heard the sound, and sure enough, he saw that a large cloud of white fog had risen on the wild horse beach, but Xu Rui knew that this was not a big fog, but steam, high temperature and high heat water vapor! The stupid devil introduced the river water to extinguish the fire, but it was a big mistake, now the entire Mustang Beach is shrouded in steam, and as more river water pours in from the dug canal, there will be more hot and humid water vapor will continue to be generated, but the little devil is dead!

At this point, there is no longer any suspense in the battle of Mustang Beach!

These five or six thousand devil infantry trapped on Wild Horse Beach are definitely over!

Now, Xu Rui's only worry is the cavalry of the Kawaguchi detachment, there was a reconnaissance cavalry report before that the devil's cavalry wing had crossed the Mei River from the upstream Zhaozhuang, but now, the devil's cavalry wing should have returned to the west bank of the Mei River, and it must be rushing towards the Wild Horse Beach.

As long as you get rid of this cavalry wing of the devil, and then take advantage of the situation to counterattack and recapture Meizhen, this battle will be considered complete.

However, compared to the main infantry of the Kawaguchi detachment, the remaining cavalry wing is really nothing, the cavalry wing sounds quite bluffing, in fact, it is two cavalry squadrons, more than 300 cavalry, in terms of the number of cavalry alone, it is not even much more than the cavalry battalion of the independent regiment, and the cavalry battalion now has four cavalry companies with more than 300 cavalry.

At that moment, Xu Rui turned around and asked, "Old Mo, did you send the order to the cavalry battalion?" ”

Mo Zichen stood up and said, "Report to the regiment commander, the order to the cavalry battalion has already been sent." ”

"Why hasn't the cavalry battalion arrived yet?" Xu Rui frowned and said, "What kind of plane is Xiao Gang doing?" ”

Before the words fell, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the north, and it was not clear in the night, Xu Rui thought that the cavalry wing of the devil had arrived, and immediately ordered the 1st and 3rd battalions to deploy on the spot and prepare for battle.

However, it didn't take long for the surging cavalry from the north to show their figures, and the first rider held a military flag in his hand, but it was not the Rising Sun Banner of the Devil Cavalry, but the Blue Sky and White Sun Banner of the New Fourth Army.

"Commander, it's our cavalry!" Mo Zichen immediately shouted excitedly, "It's the cavalry battalion that has arrived." ”

It was indeed the cavalry battalion that arrived, and after a while, the commander of the cavalry battalion, Tie Gang, appeared in front of Xu Rui, and then turned over and dismounted and reported: "Report to the regiment commander, the cavalry battalion has been ordered to report to the regiment, please instruct." ”